European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse 5h�pkrd Rcd. Don t Jiw from Chr or. Wife and children help Mead to live lordly life Al i itally Home in Surrey. By John Kiiu Egu is London bureaus a Poloi by red Granny that great Western Mead Tat Given birth to another How to manual of mirth How to live like a lord without really Mead a mud son Avenue and Long Bland refugee who now lives in England obviously touch types with his funny Bone. It has made him a Fortune. The stage adaptation of his How to succeed in business without really published in 1�52, was a world wide Bonanza. Now we have his fourth How to Effort following in the laugh Wake of the How to succeed in business. How to gel Rich in to. And How to succeed with women. His record for title length belongs to his novel Dudley. There is no Tomor Rowl then How about this after noon. How to live like a lord. Duhl nihed in Britain by Macdonald and company ltd., is based on experiences of the Meads parents and three children during the six years they have been living in jacket Blurb sums up the Book As a confidential manual prepared As part of a survival kit for americans living lit Britain showing How to gel Rich in England How to Rise quickly and easily to the lop of British society examining the bless nos. Foibles and weaknesses of British life and providing the Reader with his just share of wealth warmth off miss. A in see i no Mere detractor. Neither does he self shy con Fine his advice to fellow americans. To sunday january 17, 1965 wants the British to Benefit from his Wisdom too. And he instructs his Amer ican readers the unofficial emis Saries to Lead the British from the front to a belter Way of life. He con trusts this method with the official government visitors. Sent to guide the British As a helmsman steers a boat from the one of the quickest ways of getting to the front should be in a mow Tah Cah " but you will never again in your life be so dangerous to your fellow Mun As in your first few hours of driving a motor car in Britain there Are no automobiles but millions of mow Tah besides driving in the most danger Ous traffic in the americans face the added hazards of keeping to the wrong Side of the Road and in a British Model steering from the wrong Side the latter also involves shifting gear s for perhaps the first time in years and with the wrong you will be Mead further warns on the narrowest ill Liesl roads you have Ever seen scarcely wide enough for two cars to pass without touching and with a layer of moving bicycles on each Side. You will soon see Why the British win most of the driving championships. It is the Law of survival of the fittest. If you arc not an expert Driver in England you will soon be still Many visitors live Long enough to find that they Are actually enjoying their stay in Britain. Such americans often fall into the British habit of pronouncing individual words in a complicated and Lime consuming manner in Stead of following americans new and easy Way of talking without actually pronouncing apropos of this n newly arrived american woman Wilh a heavy Southern drawl was recently hauled into u Landon court accused of Drunken driving. Her testimony. In a slow slurred. North Carolina accent convinced Hie jury of her innocence but inc chairman commented i do not think i have Ever heard anybody speak in the witness Box As though they had too much in drink As i have heard this Yuri May learn to sneak like a lord ii log Kuki Lizul Mead is the first to admit that you in not actually want to live like a he explains that lie uses the phrase ill the Lille Only lie cause of alliteration Ami literary pretend counties lords live More wretchedly than your Norem relations in the slates. Shivering and chattering in freezing houses and eating abominable if there is one tilled Lite Worth emulating Mead says it is that of a Duke dec Yook. There an Only 32 of them and almost All of them do lie in a manner to which you could become amiss mini d and which with a careful study of a few simple rules you can easily attain Mead is a big. Congenial Man of. Who in api Tearance seems 10 have Moud still in years since re tiring from the advertising business in 1935. He found Madison Avenue far from being a great Challenge hardly in body thinks Al the stars and stripes staggering royalties from writings and stage and screen rights and percentages arc a wonderful youth ionic. Mead has come a Long Way from mis Souri where he was Horn and educated. During his 20 years in new York he was Able to write eight plays three novels and two books of humor All on an Early Bird schedule of arriving Al the office an hour and a half ahead of every one Oke. At 41, he was successful enough Halo leave advertising altogether. Then the building of a mixing Island Motorway practically through his living room led the Mead loader to Shepherd his Kilili flock to Mure peaceful Pas Tures first . Then a Retreat in Surrey. But his lowering height and Crew Cut pretty Well identify him As an Ameri can wherever he rubbed his closely cropped hair and explained its advantages ii enables me to gel ice in my drink without having to called prolonged living in a Uroper a disease that affects everyone who comes abroad never intending to May he often commutes to the Stales on business. Including lecture hours. Mead commenting on the Way that Money has poured in from How to succeed in business. ". Called such writing Success almost tie said he was speaking As one who has made As Little As 1500 nil a he added that ills next work would be a re turn to satirical science fiction in which he first made lib Mark in the Ilia Hall of Page 11
